Sunday, January 29, 2012

K12 project- Immigration

This is a link to the website ‘teachervision,’ a website that provides interactive lessons, pintable’s, references, pictures, articles and ideas on how to enhance the curriculum in the area of immigration. The specific link provided is related to American immigration, giving teachers a series of useful resources to complete in lessons, particularly throughout the years of the late 1800’s. The website gives a very brief outline as to what is included ‘with statistics on U.S. immigration, lessons on Ellis Island’ and to what it aims to achieve ‘Studying immigration brings to light the many interesting and diverse cultures in the world’ therefore unveiling the past of the many minorities present in today’s American society. Once completing the various tasks provided students should have a firm understanding of the difficulties and hardships immigrants had to overcome before being allowed to enter America.
The website presents this aspect of US history in a simplistic and clear manner, when looking at the links provided the information presented is also set out in a clear, thought provoking and productive style. Providing basic information and American history in an entertaining and engaging manner via the pintables and lessons plans, an outsider is able to view what it means to be an American
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/tv/printables/Citizenship1.pdf
The information provided is almost a ‘soft’ version of the reality, for example the conditions of Ellis Island the key to the lesson plans being that more of empathy rather than understanding reality. . All the links provided, although informative and from a reliable source, you can tell are made for children to be looking through and getting their information from. This is because all the facts are basic and tell the brief history of American Immigration, however does not provide a tell all, harsh reality of the conditions at the time.

A website that provides interactive lessons, printables, references, pictures, articles and ideas on how to enhance the curriculum in the area of immigration. The specific link provided is related to American immigration, giving teachers a series of useful resources to complete in lessons, particularly throughout the years of the late 1800’s. The website gives a very brief outline as to what is included ‘with statistics on U.S. immigration, lessons on Ellis Island’ and to what it aims to achieve ‘Studying immigration brings to light the many interesting and diverse cultures in the world’ therefore unveiling the past of the many minorities present in today’s American society. Once completing the various tasks provided students should have a firm understanding of the difficulties and hardships immigrants had to overcome before being allowed to enter America.
The website presents this aspect of US history in a simplistic and clear manner, when looking at the links provided the information presented is also set out in a clear, thought provoking and productive style. Providing basic information and American history in an entertaining and engaging manner via the pintables and lessons plans, an outsider is able to view what it means to be an American
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/tv/printables/Citizenship1.pdf
The information provided is almost a ‘soft’ version of the reality, for example the conditions of Ellis Island the key to the lesson plans being that more of empathy rather than understanding reality. . All the links provided, although informative and from a reliable source, you can tell are made for children to be looking through and getting their information from. This is because all the facts are basic and tell the brief history of American Immigration, however does not provide a tell all, harsh reality of the conditions at the time.